On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:10:00PM +0100, Bruno.Verlyck@inria.fr wrote:
> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:57:45 +0000
> From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
>
> Is there a way to set line buffering, particularly of stdout?
> Short answer: no.
>
> The OCaml I/O system doesn't use C's FILE *. It's (much) simpler,
> efficient, and just not done with line buffering as a goal. I looked
> at it (io.c) while implementing Cash (line buffering is in the
> original specification), and adding this would have made a too big
> patch. I gave up.
I noticed before that OCaml seems to implement its own I/O buffering
system, instead of using FILE* (or sfio, I guess). Is there a reason
for that?
Thanks for the info anyway. It's somewhat annoying that stdout can't
be line buffered.
Rich.
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